Civil Rights Movement

MLK FBI thegrio.com

Check out the trailer for Sam Pollard’s ‘MLK/FBI’ documentary

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Lucille Bridges, mother of activist Ruby Bridges, dies at 86

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Church that held Emmett Till’s funeral now listed on U.S. endangered historic places

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John Lewis thegrio.com

John Lewis: A call to uphold his legacy of ‘good trouble’

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Civil rights figure Charles Evers, brother of Medgar Evers, dies

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Rev. C.T. Vivian, key civil rights leader, has died at 95

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Thomas Blanton, 1963 KKK bomber of 16th St Baptist Church in Birmingham, dies

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MLK Mother thegrio.com

How Martin Luther King’s traffic arrest changed history’s course

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Activists celebrate civil rights icon Joseph Lowery: ‘We must never forget him’

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Rosa Parks

New statue of Rosa Parks unveiled in Alabama on 64th bus boycott anniversary

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MLK Assassination thegrio.com

‘Green Book’ motel that once housed MLK under renovation as new national monument

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Emmett Till TheGrio

How Mississippi and Emmett Till shaped the March on Washington

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AP Dorothy Cotton thegrio.com

Dorothy Cotton, civil rights pioneer and MLK colleague, dies

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John Lewis Run theGrio.com

Rep. John Lewis to release multi-part graphic novel ‘Run’

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Fox News’ Eboni K. Williams schools David Clarke after he says ‘John Lewis who?’

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White artist’s Emmett Till painting under fire at NY museum

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Family of Marcus Garvey pushing for presidential pardon

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Civil rights leader, former DC delegate Walter Fauntroy arrested at airport

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Rep. John Lewis comes for Bernie's civil rights activism in 1960s: 'I never saw him'

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Why President Obama's defense of Black Lives Matter is so important

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